The issue is surrounded by controversy because critics of the ban say the opposition is being driven and funded by outside groups with no knowledge of, or vested interest in, hunting laws in Maine.

Biologists with the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife say they don’t feel the hunting techniques are cruel, and they serve as an effective way of controlling the state’s bear population.

Biologists explain that Maine’s black bear population is robust, and without population control food becomes scarce, and that leads to disease and more nuisance bear encounters in urban areas as the bears search out food.

If you had to decide on whether or not to ban these hunting techniques today, what would you decide?

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